{"id":2102,"date":"2010-01-13T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2010-01-13T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:54:16","slug":"hannibal-rome-and-carthage-in-the-second-punic-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/hannibal-rome-and-carthage-in-the-second-punic-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forcedmarchgames.com\/\">My friend Kevin pointed me to this<\/a> a couple of days ago and only now have I gotten to spend some time with the beta demo.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that strikes you about <em>Hannibal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/forcedmarchgames.com\/graphics\/tool_area_screenshot.jpg\">is the art<\/a>. It&#8217;s sort of a Bayeux Tapestry thing, I guess. Very stylized and not entirely clear all the time. But I can think of no other game that looks like this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out whether I like the demo. Forced March Games (great name, by the way) has made some odd interface decisions for activating units and the tutorial is one of those things that locks you out of certain actions in an infuriating way unless you do everything you are told in the right order. But movement and combat is straightforward and it captures Hannibal&#8217;s strategic genius and peril nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Still in beta, and you know how I feel about playing those. But, hey, it&#8217;s Hannibal. It&#8217;s hard for me to say no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Kevin pointed me to this a couple of days ago and only now have I gotten to spend some time with the beta demo. The first thing that strikes you about Hannibal is the art. It&#8217;s sort of a Bayeux Tapestry thing, I guess. Very stylized and not entirely clear all the time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,62],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-xU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}